The 38-year-old musician, whose real name is Stefani Germanotta, emerged on the music scene in the late 2000s with hits such as ‘Poker Face’ and ‘Bad Romance’ The ‘Disease’ hitmaker, who has just released her seventh studio album ‘Mayhem’, also noted that her own authenticity comes through when she is able to be \”fully expressive\” in herself, even if she may have been \”criticised\” for being different when she first came to prominence. \”I am at my most authentic when fully expressive. I’ve been criticised for being the weird one, or different. Since I was 17 I never allowed anyone to control that. But then you’re surrounded by systems figuring out how to monetise and market you, to turn you into an enterprise’, she added. ‘I’m just a much more stable, healthy human than I was for the last 20 years. The music industry took over my life when I was younger. It took me far away from myself and I had to endure a lot and it hardened me, for sure’